Insights
Focus on price stability
We need central banks globally to refocus on their core task: price stability.
Month: July 2022
Newsroom
Germany is stumbling towards an uncertain future
Instead of facing up to the many painful realities, the Germans are still clinging on to some weird rituals – such as filling their ‘summer hole’ with a staged debate.
Insights
No trivial pursuit
At the very least, schools should teach students how to read, write and calculate. Our children are wasting their potential if we do not equip them with these skills.
The Australian
Disaster: the truth behind New Zealand’s full employment
New Zealand has crippled its labour market. Only economic illiterates would celebrate this disaster as full employment.
Insights
Paying the price for economic mismanagement
The Government’s economic competence will determine how long and how deep our economic downturn will be.
Newsroom
The Tory Party is over – now for the hangover
Whoever follows Boris Johnson as Conservative leader will have a big task of rebuilding the party and then – if voters allow – the country.
Insights
The meaning of independence
New Zealanders must realise that, in a less benign world, an independent foreign policy cannot mean neutrality. And the Prime Minister delivered that message loud and clear.
The Australian
Even mediocre would be easier to bear: how NZ lost its mojo
For many years, pollsters Roy Morgan and Curia have been asking New Zealanders whether the country is heading in the right direction. Apart from a few months around the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, large majorities of Kiwis have always responded “Yes”.